Percy W. Allen | |
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Member of the Mississippi State Senate from the 29th district | |
In office January 1932 –January 1940 Servingwith J. A. Lake Jr. | |
Preceded by | L. G. North John L. Hebron Jr. |
Succeeded by | J. A. Lake Jr. Howard Jones |
Personal details | |
Born | Sardis,Mississippi,U.S. | July 30,1889
Died | December 31,1943 54) Biloxi,Mississippi,U.S. | (aged
Political party | Democratic |
Percy Wilmore Allen (July 30,1889 - December 31,1943) was an American lawyer and politician. He served in the Mississippi State Senate from 1932 to 1940.
Percy Wilmore Allen was born on July 30,1889,in Sardis,Mississippi. [1] He served in the First World War. [1] Allen was a lawyer who lived in Indianola,Mississippi. [1] In March 1930,Mississippi Governor Theodore G. Bilbo appointed Allen to be the Prosecuting Attorney of Sunflower County,Mississippi. [2] In 1931,Allen was elected to represent the 29th District (consisting of Humphreys,Sunflower,and Washington Counties) as a Democrat in the Mississippi State Senate,and served from 1932 to 1936. [3] [4] [1]
In 1935,Allen was re-elected to the Senate and served from 1936 to 1940. [1] During this term,Allen was the chairman of the Penitentiaries &Prisons Committee and the vice chairman of the Humane &Benevolent Institutions Committee. [1] He also served in the following committees:Conservation of Natural Resources;Fees &Salaries;Insurance;Judiciary;Levees;Public Land;and Temperance. [1] During his time in the Senate,Allen was the co-author of the bill creating the Mississippi State Game and Fish Committee. [5]
In November 1943,Allen was once again re-elected to represent the 29th District. [5] Allen died on December 31,1943,in the Veterans Hospital in Biloxi,Mississippi,five days before his term would have begun. [5]
Allen was a Missonary Baptist. [1] He was married. [1]
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